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I read something interesting the other day.
About the starting salary of Harvard MBA graduates.
Stick with me, it is interesting – promise!
When equated for qualification level……….
Male candidates started a 7.6% higher salary than female candidates.
Which, of course, is something to be addressed.
However, further study showed the reason wasn’t quite what we would assume.
57% of men attempted to negotiate a better starting salary.
While only 7% of women did.
And, the starting salary of the men and women who did and didn’t negotiate was virtually the same.
Now, there is an argument to be made that men and women should feel equally comfortable negotiating a better starting salary.
And that, perhaps, changes need to be made, to make that a reality.
But, I’m sure you agree, the headline stat here is somewhere between misleading and ‘only tells half the story”.
As headline stats often are.
Or at least, the reporting of said stats leaves a little to be desired.
I’ve seen studies reported with headlines such as “Meat is bad for you”.
That, on inspection, show a certain amount of meat to be ‘better’ for health than none.
And only the highest centiles of meat consumption to be worse.
Not wanting to get into a meat debate here – just saying what many of those studies suggest, in contradiction to the headlines reporting them.
And we’ve seen all sorts of reports of studies that seem to suggest pretty much everything you can think of to be bad for you which don’t quite say that when you read the studies themselves.
We get that it’s confusing.
All the conflicting info.
Everything seems to be bad for you.
It’s hard to know what to believe.
The funny thing is……………
Despite what most FitPros will tell you……………..
Displaying massive arrogance that their own ‘experience’ and stuff they’ve googled trumps, you know…………….
Highly qualified and experienced medical professionals……………..
Doing large, controlled, repeatable, published and peer reviewed studies
The Government Guidelines are a pretty good place to start.
Average a calorie deficit to lose weight.
Get enough protein (0.75g per kilo of body weight per day is their minimum – I’d go higher with closer to 2g per kilo personally. But, at the very least, hit that minimum).
Get 5 or more portions of fruit or veg per day.
Enough water (6 to 8 glasses – 1.2l – is the government recommendation. Again, we like a bit higher, but that’s a good start).
Now, none of this will get someone in the Olympics.
It’s not ‘optimum’.
But, if someone isn’t doing this already, that’s a good place to start.
We can help people accelerate their results once they’ve got these basics ‘dialled in’.
Much love,
Jon ‘Yale’ Hall and Matt ‘Mortice’ Nicholson
P.S. As it as done for nearly 5 years straight now, the November programme sold out at the find out more meeting last night. Details are up for the November meeting for the December programme though at myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
